Anonymity Quotes

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You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire

I miss the anonymity that comes with New York because everyone around you is so immersed in their own journey.

Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy.

You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.

I didn't choose anonymity.Instead, I chose absence.

Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit.

I want to be normal. I really want anonymity.

Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.

Some of us just don't want to be famous ... anonymity cannot be bought for any price, once you have lost it.

Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm.

I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life.

I've always said that fame is fleeting, but anonymity can last a lifetime.

Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.

I think anonymity on the internet has to go away.

Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.

Invisibility is the only thing that fame cost me. I used to be able to go places and blend in. Anonymity is something you lose on this side of things.

The art of giving is perfected through anonymity.

So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity

Anonymity is the fame of the future.

The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back.

The loss of anonymity is something that nobody can prepare you for. When it happened, I recognized that I'd lost one of the most valuable things in life. To this day, I'm not all that happy about it

Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.

Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us.

I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to be a frontman; I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.

Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.

It's nice to have some anonymity and still be low key.

It's not fair that the accused is not protected from adverse publicity whilst the accuser is guaranteed anonymity, whatever the verdict.

Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying.

The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as - carried too far - one of its weaknesses.

I know that the vitriol and hyperbole that exists online, and the anonymity, can be deadly because it's cloaked in negativity and it's brutal sometimes.

Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird.

I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.

Exhibitionism and a nervous wish for concealment, for anonymity, thus battle inside the buyer of any piece of clothing.

Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity.

I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors.

People reveal so much of their mental processes online, simply because the psychological effect of anonymity just means that a whole raft of inhibitions are left alone when people log on.

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

What I hate is the loss of anonymity.

I like my anonymity - that when I meet people they don't know me.

I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.

Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible.

The work is the work. The work is not me. I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films. Even though it's my voice, I'm a storyteller.

Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.

Yoga has moved from relative anonymity in the West to a well-recognized practice offered in thousands of studios, community centers, hospitals, gyms, and health clubs.

I have never in any way found the idea of celebrity appealing. Anonymity is much more appealing.

I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.

What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?

I still have anonymity, which is great. I can go out anywhere I want and no one ever recognizes me.

I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame.

If a Jew is fascinated by Christians it is not because of their virtues, which he values little, but because they represent anonymity, humanity without race.